Tag: Jesus

Ask anyone, “What are the names of God or Jesus?” and you will get very varied answers. Some with say that God is the Father and Jesus is the Son and that is all that they are. Others will say that God is the Father, The Great I AM, Our Master, Our Provider, Healer, and God Most High,: Jesus is the Son of God, Part of the Trinity, Healer, Lord, and Savior. The names of God and Jesus are so much more than just names. To understand this concept all you have to do is open you heart and mind to these concepts. I’m going to lead you on a journey to discover the meaning of their names, but unfortunately most likely not all of them. Even though I think and expect perfection from myself, I might miss a few because I am not in fact, perfect…LOL Let the Journey Begin!!!!

Most of the names of God or Jesus are not really proper names like Cheryl is to me. Their names are more like characteristics or descriptions that tell you more about them so that you can know them better. Some of the names are the same for both God and Jesus. For example, both of them are called a form of “Lord”: God is called “LORD” and Jesus is called “My Lord”. I will get more into that at another time.

Exodus 3:14 KJV

God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM, Say this to the people of Israel: I AM sent me to you.”

God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, God of your ancestors – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob – has sent me to you.

This is my eternal name,

my name to remember for all generations.”

God does have a proper name as you can see in the above scripture. It is the Hebrew word “YHWH”. In the Hebrew language the vowels are only spoken not written so the pronunciation and spelling are still in debate today. “Yahweh” and “Jehovah” are just two examples of the proper name of God. Jehovah is a form of the Hebrew name of God that is used in only some translations of the Bible. Synonyms of Jehovah are being used as nouns for example: Absolute Being, Allah, Father, and Almighty One.

Psalm 83:18 KJV

“That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth”

Exodus 6:3 KJV

“And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.”

As you can see in the above verses from the King James version of the Bible, God names Himself, JEHOVAH. Now the problem is that in later translations of the Bible such as the NLT and even the New King James, JEHOVAH is changed to “Lord” only in small upper case instead of BOLD UPPER CASE! JEHOVAH is seen more often in the Bible joined with other titles or characteristics such as JEHOVAH Shalom meaning , “The Lord Our Peace.”

YHWH can also be turned into “Yahweh”. It is used about 6,828 times in the Bible. It came to be regarded by the Jews in about c Bc 300 as “too sacred” to be spoken which is why the spelling and the way it is pronounced is still in some debate even unto this day. Just as JEHOVAH is translated into “Lord” in the English Bible, YAHWEH in the Hebrew Word is built around the words, “I AM!” Now that is a different topic altogether.

Now we have to ask the question, “Is God’s name important?” Well, let’s look at the prayer that Jesus Christ gave us to prayer:

Matthews 6:9

“Our Father in the Heaven

Let your name be sanctified.”

Let’s also look at how Jesus himself, prayed to God:

John 12:29

“Father, glorify your name.”

In response, God spoke from heaven; saying:

“I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”

Jesus talks to God with respect, and reverence, and honor and places great importance on God’s name. This sets the stage for us. We, too, should treat the Father and the Son with respect, reverence and honor, and hold Him in a place of great importance in our lives.

Come join me on a journey into the individual names of God and Jesus and what they mean. It will be interesting to see where it leads us……

There are a lot of reasons to complain, but the main reason is pain. Pain. It is an interesting word. It comes in so many different shapes and sizes. In the Dictionary it means a feeling triggered in the nervous system. What a simple answer for such a complex word that causes so many feelings and emotions and images that come to ones mind and/or heart. Some people can handle it so easily and others have such a struggle with just a paper cut which is nothing at all much less a busted lip or black eye. Pain can manifest itself in so many very different ways; physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally and verbally. It can feel like a pin prick at the tip of your finger, or a sting by a bee, the burn of the flame of fire, the ache of muscles well used, or the tingle of your funny bone after you have hit it on something hard. If your lucky you only experience pain in one way in one area of your body such as only having mild Migraines. Unfortunately, I have pain in several different areas and the pain is varied in multiple ways and intensity. Some of pain is correctable but not all so I am classified as in chronic pain. Chronic pain effects about 86 million people in American. They range from mild chronic pain to severe chronic pain. Because I’m in the high mild chronic pain, I am on medications, but my pain doctor is trying nerve blocks to cut down on some of the pain and it is working in some of the areas, but unfortunately not all.

For a long while I was constantly talking about my pain to everyone who would listen and some who wouldn’t. When people asked me how I was doing, I would actually tell them about all the pain I was in and how depressed I was. It turned people away from me, even though I didn’t realize it at the time. I was so self absorbed and wrapped up in my pain-put-upon me wrap. Finally, a friend who had not cut me off was brave enough to tell me to my face that they were tired of hearing all the negative thoughts that I was saying and to stop complaining. She also told me that maybe if I didn’t talk about it so much, the pain might not be so bad.

Well, It made me stop and think. I started thinking about other people for the first time in a long time. Would I like to hear about nothing but someone’s pain everyday, all day, long without stop? No! Would I try to do something about it? Yes, if I could. If I couldn’t, I’d do what I could for that person and pray for them. I have started watching my words and trying extremely hard to stop talking about the pain at all , but there are times that the pain is just so bad that it has to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to ask for pray or when you hit a hole in the road and your head hits the roof for your car. .

My friend did make me think about the complaining, and I wanted to know what God said about it. First, I had to define pain and complain as they apply in the Bible. According to the Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary by W.E. Vine, in the New Testament of the bible, pain is both a noun and a verb. As a noun it can be one of two Greek words; either pono – “anguish” as in Revelation 16:10 or ocin – “travail pain” as in Matthew 24:8 or “sorrows” as in 1 Thessalonians 5:3. As a verb it can be basanizo or “ to rub on the touchstone to put to the test.” In this statement a ” touchstone” is a dark stone used in testing metals. It can also mean in general “to distress” as in Revelation 12:2.

Now that we have an idea about what the Bible says about pain, let’s look at what it says about complaining. In the Old Testament there are three different Greek words for complainer or complaint. There are 1)mempsimoiros means “one who complains” or “complaining of one’s lot” as in Jude16. 2)momphe means “blame” or “occasion of complaint” or “quarrel” as in Colossians 3:13. 3) aitoma means “in charge” or complaints” as in Acts 25:7.

So we know the definitions but do we have the understanding of theses words and can easily use them yet? No! We need to put the definitions into action, so let us look into the Bible and see what God says about these concepts. After Adam and Eve fall from grace, one of the things that God did was intensify a woman’s labor pains and added painful efforts with children. Also because of their biting of the apple, we all as well will experience the pain of death.

According to Psalm 142:2 KJV we are suppose to lay complaints at God’s feet. In Isaiah 53 we get a eye opener on how both God and man look at these two concepts. It is clear that even when we were sinners, God loved us. He took on all our sicknesses and He carries all our pains. It also shows us as well that man has never treated prophets and men of God very nicely, but we were especially cruel to Jesus.

You have to keep in mind that God did everything for us that he has done not because of anything that we could have done on this earth or in heaven. We are born into sin thanks to Adam and Eve. Not one of us is innocent and that includes babies. We have to stop complaining all the time or thinking that we are entitled to something in this world. Thank be to God for loving us so much that he took on all our bad stuff so that we may have all of God’s good stuff. AMEN